There is a simple way of judging the adequacy of media: the focus is on Snowden’s revelations–PRISM, TEMPORA etc.–or on Snowden himself? He is but one…
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Keynote Speech, World Futures Studies Federation 40th anniversary – Bucuresti, România Future studies, like peace-development-environment studies, is an inter-disciplinary, inter-national effort to get a grip on…
The atrocious Second World War left behind lasting damage by lowering our standards for what is marginally acceptable. War is bad; but if it is not…
Alfaz del Pi, located between Mediterranean beaches and a couple of majestic mountains, Campana-Aitana (Man and Woman) 1500 meters high. Today this small town generously accommodates…
From Istanbul Turkey did the impossible, moving almost without violence from a military secular dictatorship to a civilian Sunni majority democracy. Turkey got unstuck. Sarkar’s circulation…
How do the elites of declining empires react? One answer is demoralization. Like 26,000 annual acts of sexual harassment in the US Army leaving little time…
A few years ago the two countries were the leaders in mental anxiety in the Americas. Both had good reasons: the longest lasting violence in any…
Firenze, European University Institute Five ways of doing research, re-search, for insight, knowledge, solutions. How it is done matters. The world does not come to us…
We all feel desperate watching the horrible killing, feeling the suffering of the bereaved, the whole people. But, what to do? Could it be that the…
It has never been this bad since the 1950-53 Korea war. October 1962, the Cuba-USSR-USA crisis, comes to mind. There were horror visions of mushroom clouds.…
Keynote Speech – Doha, Qatar – 2 April 2013Peak Oil: Challenges and Opportunities in the GCC-Gulf Cooperation Council Countries Distinguished Participants, The organizers deserve high praise…
Economic power: the West being overtaken by the Rest, with growth rates for the USA, Euro zone and Japan being respectively 0.1, -0.9, -0.2 (Italy -2.8),…
Nobody celebrated the 10th anniversary of the 19-20 March 2003 coalition invasion of Iraq (not only the USA was responsible, the stupidity coalesced). Stephen Zunes summarizes…
The black smoke turned white, a captivating dramaturgy since 1870. And there he was on the balcony, addressing the huge crowd the way St Francis of…
That his life and his deeds had black dots is part of the story; but that should not block seeing the greatness of a maker of…
There is a crisis in the Western or more particularly the Indo-European political system –for reasons to be made clear. The system is referred to as…
The first prognosis for the French invasion was a quick victory given their superior weaponry; and then the real war starts: guerilla. France is up against…
Liverpool-UK, 31 January 2013 The uncontested center of the world slave trade, 40%, well documented in the International Slavery Museum in the port where slave ships…
The Middle East-North Africa–MENA–is Arab-Muslim with a growing Jewish island in its midst. Former colonial territory–under Sunni Ottoman Turks for four centuries+ and the secular West,…
A century ago humanity, particularly in the West, was at the beginning of a major revolution, from horse culture to car culture. Today there are still…
From Alicante, Spain “Unemployment in Spain Tops 6.1M” – Unemployment rate is 26.6 percent; for those under the age of 25, 56.5 percent; all growing, all…